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[William Everson, printer.] Robinson Jeffers. Granite & Cypress: Rubbings from the Rock.... (Total: 3 Items)
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Everson's Masterpiece of Fine Printing
[William Everson, printer.] Robinson Jeffers. Granite & Cypress: Rubbings from the Rock. Poems Gathered from the Stonemason Years When Submission to the Spirit of Granite in the Building of House & Tower & Wall Focused His Imagination & Gave Massive Permanence to His Verse. Santa Cruz: The Lime Kiln Press, 1975. First edition, number 74 of 100 copies signed by Everson on the limitation page. Oblong folio. Illustrated with a title page woodcut by William Prochnow. Printed on handmade Hayle paper on a double crown Acorn handpress at the McHenry Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Bound by San Francisco's Schuberth Bookbindery in German linen, lined with Japanese Uwa paper. The spine is open-laced with deerskin rawhide with a strip of cypress on the spine. Housed in a slipcase made of Monterey Cypress with a window of granite from Jeffers' own stoneyard. The wooden slipcase stands on a felt-lined matching cypress base. Also included are a prospectus signed by Everson and three proof sheets. Two horizontal hairline cracks to the slipcase (one on each side), else a superb copy in fine condition.From the prospectus: "Readers will find here, then, four unprecedented features. In the book itself, they will read together for the first time the nuclear body of poems which Jeffers wrote under the impact of stone, the transforming symbol of his creative emergence. They will see the long Jeffers line extended to its natural outreach, like the pulse and withdrawal of the tides to which he attributed his prosody. They will find a typography in which the implication of stone is carried to the ultimate, registering a wave-worn permanence of his mood and themes. And in the incomparable case which enshrines the whole they will possess the architectonic resolution of all these elements, memorializing the achievement of a spirit intense but serene, and the passionate instinct, immoderate and fierce, by which he will always live."
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2012 February 8 Rare Books Signature Auction - Beverly Hills #6064 (go to Auction Home page)
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